Bloomberg Fumbles, As Expected

Michael Bloomberg this week was no longer hiding behind his millions in ad spending and campaign offices all across the country. For perhaps the first time in years, Bloomberg was challenged for his past in a way that exposed his past actions front and center.

This past Wednesday, Bloomberg took the debate stage in a much smaller field than in debates past. Six candidates, including Bloomberg, participated in a Nevada primary debate ahead of today’s Nevada Caucus. And, amidst all of the chaos, one thing seemed clear throughout the night: Bloomberg was the exact speaker that we knew he would be. He failed miserably in addressing the problems of his past and he failed to come to bring forth substantive policy justifications for his candidacy as a whole.

Bloomberg just off his past alone should not have been on anyone’s radar as a presidential candidate. Whether redlining, whether stop and frisk, whether choosing to ask to cut Medicare and Social Security, this man is not even a moderate Democrat; he’s a straight conservative, former independent and Republican within the past two decades. His policies have caused harm to the lives of thousands of Black Americans, and he has a history of sexual harassment and ludicrous conduct around women.

Yet, pundits have chosen to put forth Bloomberg as the candidate who could be “electable,” a concept I’ve…